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DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. First edition in book form, 8vo (211 x 129mm.) Etched frontispiece, additional engraved title, 38 etched plates by H.K. Browne, errata leaf. (Spotting and browning to most plates, lacking half-title, occasional minor soiling, tape repairs to hinges.) Near contemporary green morocco, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, with original spine laid-down, some staining and fading to covers). - And a further thirteen volumes (including a first edition in book form of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House', 1853, 8vo, and a first edition of Anthony Trollope's 'The Vicar of Bullhampton', 1870, 8vo) (14).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, first impression, 8vo (187 x 120mm.) (Faint toning.) Original black cloth with skeletal hand blind-stamped to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine, dust-jacket.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. London: John Cassell, 1852. First U.K. edition, 8vo (198 x 123mm.) Portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, title-page vignette, 25 wood-engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank, 1p. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Small marks to tissue-guard, toning, lacking 2 plates.) Contemporary black cloth-backed buckram (rubbing to joints and extremities). - And a further nine volumes, all by Charles Dickens (including a first edition of 'Dombey and Son', 1848, 8vo, and a first edition, early issue of 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby', 1839, 8vo) (10).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

ICELAND. - George Webbe DASENT. The Story of Burnt Njal, or Life in Iceland at the End of the Tenth Century. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1861. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (208 x 132mm.) Double-page lithographed map of Iceland as frontispiece to volume 1, 2 large folding maps at rear of volumes, and 5 further plates including 1 double-paged. (Spotting to preliminaries.) Original green cloth, decorative gilt (lightly rubbed) (2).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

HUGHES, Ted. Season Songs. London: Faber and Faber, 1976. First edition, first impression, signed by Ted Hughes, 8vo (216 x 129mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket designed by Leonard Baskin (faint crease at top of spine). Provenance: 'Warwick' (name inscribed on the front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

[DU LAURENS, Henri Joseph.] L'Arretin. Rome [Amsterdam:] Aux dépens de la Congrégation de l'Index, 1763. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (153 x 94mm.) 1p. errata to rear of vol. 2. (Browning, occasional spotting, marginal insect damage from *6 - A5 of vol. 1., long hand-written description of author's life in early 19th century manuscript hand on initial blank.) 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). Note: an erotic and anti-clerical work for which du Laurens was hounded out of France. He fled to Holland, then Germany and died in a convent in Mainz, aged 74 (2).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

LEES-MILNE, James. William Beckford. Wiltshire, Tisbury: Compton Russell Ltd., 1976. First edition, 8vo (253 x 194mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (closed tear to upper panel, rubbing to spine ends). - And a further eighteen volumes by James Lees-Milne (including ten volumes of his autobiography, mixed editions, 1983-2005, 8vo) (19).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

MOUNTAINEERING. - Alfred WILLS. Wanderings Among the High Alps. London: Richard Bentley, 1856. First edition, 8vo (189 x 115mm.) 4 sepia-tinted lithographed plates. (Toning.) Contemporary green morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (surface rubbing and to extremities, upper joint splitting). Note: Jill Neate says of Wills that 'while his ascent of the Wetterhorn was not particularly momentous, it is customarily accepted as ushering in the 'Golden Age' of mountaineering'. Provenance: Richard Barrington (name-plate to the front pastedown). [Neate, W94.] - And a further nine volumes related to mountaineering (including William Brockedon's 'Journals of Excursions in the Alps', 1833, 8vo, and the first U.K. edition of Hudson Stuck's 'The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley)', 1914, 8vo) (10).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

BURTON, Richard F. (translator). The Lands of Cazembe. Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798. London: John Murray, 1873. First edition, 8vo (213 x 125mm.) Folding lithographed map, hand-coloured in outline, index to rear. (Toning, blanks replaced.) Late 20th century black half morocco over grey cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine (endpapers replaced). - And a further volume of the same work, bound in the same style, but over tan cloth-covered boards (2).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

WHISTLER, Laurence and Ronald FULLER. The Work of Rex Whistler. London: Batsford, 1960. First edition, 4to (299 x 220mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Toning, occasional minor spotting.) Original green cloth, gilt decoration to upper cover, dust-jacket (faint spotting to upper panel, creasing at top of spine). - And a further thirty-seven volumes (including Barbara Jones' 'Follies and Grottoes', 1953, 8vo, and fifteen Shell Guides) (38).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

LAWRENCE, D.H. Sons and Lovers. London: Duckworth & Co., 1913. First edition, first state, 8vo (183 x 117mm.) 20pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Lacking initial blank, hinges weakening, residue of label to front pastedown, toning.) Original blue cloth (tear at top of spine, small stains to upper cover). - And a further 2 volumes by D.H. Lawrence (including the first U.S. edition of 'Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious', 1921, 8vo) (3).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

PINKERTON, Robert. Russia: or, Miscellaneous Observations on the Past and Present State of that Country and its Inhabitants. London: Seeley & Sons., 1833. First edition, 8vo (243 x 146mm.) 8 hand-coloured lithographic plates. (Browned to margins, occasional spotting, lacking half-title.) Contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine (rebacked with original spine laid down, label residue to front pastedown, rubbing, minor surface loss to spine and upper cover).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

GAY LITERATURE. - [Thomas BURKE.] 'Paul Pry'. For Your Convenience, A Learned Dialogue Instructive To all Londoners and London Visitors. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1937. First edition, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) Illustrated title-page and illustrated endpapers by Philip Gough. (Toning, slight spotting to margins of endpapers.) Original green cloth. Note: scarce. The first 'Gay Guide' to London and written by the author of 'Limehouse Nights', Thomas Burke. The work takes the form of a discreet and indirect conversation between two men in the Thélème Club where, by innuendo, they discuss the best public toilets for gaining 'full satisfaction'. The endpaper maps provide visual assistance in locating the toilets. Provenance: E.H. Brandt (pencil inscribed on the front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

BUSINESS. - Mathieu de LA PORTE. La Science Des Negocians, et Teneurs de Livres, ou Instruction Generale. Paris: Guillaume Cavelier and Charles Osmont, 1704. First edition, oblong 4to (120 x 192mm.) In 3 parts. (Browning and offsetting to first leaves, toning, occasional damp-staining, crease to title, lacking front blank?) Near contemporary calf, paper label to spine in manuscript (repair to top of spine, extremities rubbed, endpapers replaced). Note: scarce. A work on business administration, often reprinted. The first part deals with accounting, the second with double-entry book-keeping and third with various aspects of business, such as letters of credit.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

YEATS, W.B. Wheels and Butterflies. London: Macmillan, 1934. First edition, 8vo (188 x 124mm.) (Toning, some spotting to front pastedown and fore-edge.) Original green cloth, gilt masks to upper cover (top of spine bumped), dust-jacket (crease at top of spine panel). - And a further volume (a first edition of Virginia Woolf's 'The Years', 1937, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

AMERICA. - Jacob D. WHEELER. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Slavery. Being a Compilation of all the Decisions Made on that Subject, in the Several Courts of the United States, and State Courts. New York and New Orleans: Allan Pollock, Jr. and Benjamin Levy, 1837. First edition, 8vo (233 x 150mm.) Title, 1p. publisher's advertisement, 14pp. 'Table of Cases'. (Text-block cracked at p.128 and fragile, preliminaries and first leaves loose, toning, occasional creasing.) Contemporary sheep (worn). Note: scarce. One of the first digests of American law on slavery. It was initially used as a legal guide by slaveholders but came to be used by abolitionists for its descriptions of cruelty. Slavery was finally abolished in the U.S. by the 13th Amendment in 1865.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

MOTOR-RACING. - Alan HENRY. Fifty Years of Ferrari. Somerset: Haynes Publishing, 1997. First edition, signed by Ferrari driver Phil Hill on the half-title, 4to (253 x 250mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further twelve volumes related to motor-racing, including three more signed volumes (Alan Wilson's 'Driven by Desire', signed by racing-driver Desiré Wilson, 2011, 8vo, and Peter Redman's 'Goodwood Remembered', signed by the author, 2007, 8vo, and, signed by the owner of Goodwood - the Duke of Richmond - 'The Glory of Goodwood', 1999, 4to) (13).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

COUNTRY-HOUSES. - Hermann MUTHESIUS. The English House. London: Frances Lincoln, 2007. 3 vols., first edition, 4to (314 x 215mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. Original beige cloth, dust-jackets, slipcase. - And a further twenty-one volumes relating to country houses (including J. Alfred Gotch's 'The Old Halls & Manor-Houses of Northamptonshire', 1936, 4to) (24).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - a Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented. London: James R. Osgood, 1891. 3 vols., first edition, first issue, 8vo (189 x 120mm.) Half-titles. (Browning and spotting to pastedowns and fore-edges, lacking initial blanks in vols. 1 and 2 and rear blank in vol. 1.) Original tan cloth with the double vertical honeysuckle design by Charles Ricketts on the upper covers, spines lettered in gilt (some damp-staining and soiling to boards, sunning to spines). Note: as required volume 2 has chapter XXXV misnumbered as XXV on p.199. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplates to the front pastedowns). [Purdy, p.67] (3).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

TOOLE, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces. London: Allen Lane, 1981. First U.K. edition, 8vo (194 x 124mm.) (Mild toning.) Original cream cloth (browned to spine, extremities bumped), dust-jacket (minor marginal crease, small mark to upper panel, fading). Note: partly due to his lack of success in finding a publisher for his novel, John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969, aged thirty-one. His mother sent the manuscript to novelist Walker Percy and the novel was eventually published to great acclaim, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 123mm.) (Toning, some spotting to text-block top edge.) Original black cloth, silver lettering to spine and upper cover (faint mark to upper cover), dust-jacket (browned, price-clipped). Provenance: 'Bernard' (gift inscribed to on the front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

ART REFERENCE. - Mark LAIRD and Alicia WEISBERG-ROBERTS (editors). Mrs. Delany & Her Circle. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. First edition, 4to (289 x 240mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further thirty-one volumes relating to art reference and interiors (including 'The First Georgians, Art & Monarchy 1714-1760', 2014, 4to, edited by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, and Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel's 'The Gilbert Collection, Micromosaics', 2000, 4to) (32).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

SIGNED BOOKS. - Charles BRONSON. Loonyology. Clacton-on-Sea: Apex Publishing Ltd., 2008. First edition, signed by Charles Bronson, 8vo (228 x 152mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Crease to first text leaf, toning.) Original black cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (rubbed to extremities). Note: signed on a mounted paper slip that reads: 'www.freebronson.co.uk (join the fight), Charles Bronson, 2008'. - And a further thirty-two volumes related to crime, all signed (including a book inscribed by Ronnie Kray, being Stephen B. Oates' 'To Purge This Land With Blood', 1970, 8vo, and Frankie Fraser and James Morton's book 'Mad Frank's London', 2001, 8vo, signed by 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, and another volume inscribed by Charles Bronson and signed by its author, Bob Mee's 'Bare Fists', 1998, 8vo, including a Certificate of Authenticity relating to the signatures of both Bob Mee and Charles 'Bronson' Salvador) (33).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 118mm.) (Toning, corner crease to p.11.) Original black cloth with white eye motif to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping (some sunning to spine panel, light creasing to upper panel).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

AESOP. Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists… by R. Dodsley. London: F.C. & J. Rivington et al., 1812. New edition, Corrected and Revised, 12mo (169 x 99mm.) Engraved frontispiece and vignette to title-page, numerous engraved vignettes, index to rear, 12pp. publishers catalogue to rear for 'Established School Books', dated January 1821. (Browning, occasional spotting, heavy to first few leaves, some damp-staining to title-page.) Near contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (surface loss to marbled paper on both covers, endpapers replaced). Provenance: Genevieve St. Laurent (name inscribed verso the front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

JAMES, William. A Pluralistic Universe. London & New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1909. First edition, 8vo (210 x 129mm.) (Toning, label residue to front pastedown.) Original cloth, paper label to spine, t.e.g. (fading to the label, rubbing to extremities). - And a further thirty-seven miscellaneous volumes, mainly illustrated or art reference (including John Milton's 'Samson Agonistes' illustrated by Robert Medley, 1979, 4to) (38).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth with dagger blocked in blind and silver to upper cover (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (price-clipped, rubbed to spine ends). Note: includes a photograph from the film signed by both Roger Moore and the actor who played 'Jaws', Richard Kiel, the seemingly indestructible foe with the metal teeth.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

GRIGOR, James. The Eastern Arboretum, or Register of Remarkable Trees, Seats, Gardens, &c. in the County of Norfolk. London and Norfolk: Longman Brown et al and John Stacy, 1841. First edition, 8vo (218 x 129mm.) 50 etched plates, including 2 folding and 2 double-paged. (Spotting to plate margins, toning, light spotting to text.) Near contemporary green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rubbing to spine and extremities).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

THE LAMBORGHINI MIURA, JOTA EDITION #66, BY SIMON KIDSTON The definitive book on the definitive supercar, the Jota Edition was produced in very limited numbers, 75 examples in all compared to 762 copies of the standard edition. On sale here is number 66 of 75, notable as the year of launch of Lamborghini's Miura model. All Jota Editions are hand-bound in black leather with a metallic burgundy stripe, in tribute to Bob Wallace's Jota development car. The book is presented in a clamshell Solander box, of silver buckram cloth, embossed with the ‘Miura’ and Kidston emblems.   The book is presented with a portfolio unique to the Jota Edition, trimmed in black leather and ‘Panno Beige’ Miura seat cloth, and containing unique items such as reproduction engineering drawings, two 1960s cartoons by renowned artist Russell Brockbank, a period press photograph, and an ‘in rodaggio’ windscreen sticker.   The ‘Jota Edition’ contains additional content including a foreword from Gian Paolo Dallara, a new introduction from Simon Kidston, a signed ‘chassis plate’ in the inside cover to demonstrate this is number 66 of the 75 produced. A Miura bookmark in orange is another addition.   Highly prized by collectors this is the ultimate version of the definitive volume on arguably the world's first supercar. #66 has been opened only and very carefully for cataloguing prior to auction.

Books - Milne (A.A.) & Shepherd (Ernest H., illustrator), Now We Are Six, first edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927, original publisher's red cloth (back a trifle sunned, some twist), pictorial gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, 8vo, (1); When We Were Very Young, thirteenth edition, 1926, 8vo, (1); Buckton (A.M.), Eager Heart: A Christmas Mystery-Play, a producer's annotated copy, bound and inscribed to her from a 1935 cast, nineteenth edition, London: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1934, contemporary red calf gilt by Bumpus, signed, 8vo, (1), [3]

Books. 6 shelves of general stock, including Wodehouse (P.G.), Thank You, Jeeves, first edition, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930, cloth only, 8vo, Walton and Cotton's Angler, Manchester: Thomas Johnson, 1847, original cloth, 8vo, Warren and Watkins-Pitchford's England is a Village, first edition, 1940, illustrated, original pictorial dustjacket, 8vo, late Arthur Ransome impressions, some other children's, Waverley Novels, Macaulay, Dambusters, travel, fishing, gardening, others early 20th century and later.

Books. 18 shelves of general stock, including Anon, Village Rhymes, London: R.B. Seeley & W. Burnside, 1831, contemporary calf over boards, 12mo, [De Cervantes (Miguel Saavedra)], Sancho Panza's Proverbs, London: Pickering and Chatto, 1892, original boards, 8vo, Lee (Harper), To Kill A Mockingbird, first edition, fifteenth impression, 1960, worn dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, Mitford (Jessica), Hons and Rebels, first edition, 1960, worn pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, vintage Penguin paperbacks, Irish Murdoch first editions and others, Hitler's Mein Kampf 1942 unexpurgated two volumes in one, five calf volumes of Hebren's Works, disbound Newgate Calendar, Bibles and prayer-books, J.B. Priestley, early 20th century and later cloth bound literature, other bindings, etc.

Books. 10 shelves of general stock, including Tollemache (Grace, Suffragette), Lyrics and Short Poems, first edition thus, London: Elkin Mathews, 1914, original wrappers, 8vo, J.B. Priestley, 19th century and later part-leather bound poetry, including Milton and Tennyson, Alec Waugh, gardening, etc.

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first edition hardback book in cellophane wrapping

Twenty Gilbow Exclusive First Edition die-cast scale model coaches, each with window box.

Twenty Gilbow Exclusive First Edition die-cast scale model coaches, each with window box.

Twenty-four Gilbow Exclusive First Edition die-cast scale model coaches, each with window box.

A collection of children’s books, including: Railway Series books by Rev. W. Awdry, 1950s and later, approximately 21; three Beatrix Potter books; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling, first edition; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling, first edition; three other Harry Potter books; and other books.

Lorna Bailey for Old Ellgreave Pottery large 'Summer Garden' vase decorated with wild flowers and insects. According to the Lorna Bailey First Millenium book page 56, 'This was made for the ceramics showcase 1997. It was a stylised foxglove. It was supposed to be a limited edition of 50 but only 25 were ever made due to firing problems'. Height approx 32cm. No signs of damage or restoration.

MENESES, D. Luís de (3º Conde da Ericeira).- HISTORIA | DE | PORTUGAL | RESTAURADO. | OFFERECIDA | AO SERENISSIMO PRINCIPE | DOM PEDRO | NOSSO SENHOR. | ESCRITTA | POR | DOM LUIS DE MENEZES | CONDE DA ERICEYRA...- Lisboa: Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galraõ; Na Officina de Miguel Deslandes, 1710-1698.- 2 vols.: frontispício grav., 1 retrato; 33 cm.- E., D. Luís de Meneses (1632-1690), 3rd Count of Ericeira, military and political, born in Lisbon, was one of the most notable historians of the Restoration of Independence; he would commit suicide on May 26, 1690. First edition, the most appreciated and with the largest format, of this important title in Portuguese historiography, which reports the political-military events that took place in Portugal between 1640 and 1668. The collation of the two volumes is as follows: volume I - [12], 908, [31, 1 br.] p.: 1 engraved frontispiece, 1 portrait; volume II - [20], 975, [1 br.] p. The first volume is from the second edition, dated 1710 (the first is from 1679) and retains not only the engraved frontispiece, but also the beautiful portrait of the author (signed Fred. Bouttats) that is missing from most copies. The second volume dates from 1698 and was printed by Miguel Deslandes and does not include any engravings. Copy slightly cropped, with signs of handling and occasional light browning; engraved frontispiece slightly wrinkled. Ex-libris by João José d’Abreu M. M. de Lemos, in both volumes (on the front cover of volume II). Contemporary bindings, worn. Inocêncio, V, p. 307. Samodães, 2085. Arouca, M 302.

LA GUERINIÈRE, François Robichon de.- Ecole de cavalerie, contenant la connoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval.- A Paris: Jacques Collombat, 1733.- [8], 276, [8] p.: 1 portada gravada, [24] gravuras; 44 cm.- E., First folio edition of a classic work in the field of equestrian art, considered one of the most beautiful French editions of the 18th century (the first two, small format, were published between 1729 and 1731, this being the third). François Robichon de la Guérinière (1688-1751), recognized as the founder of the French riding school, began his activity as a squire to the Count d'Armagnac who, in 1715, commissioned him to found an equestrian academy in Paris. From 1730 until his death, with his brother Pierre as a partner, he directed the Académie des Tuilleries, having as patron Prince Charles de Lorraine, chief-squire of King Louis XV. The edition is illustrated with an engraved title, representing the education of Achilles (with the bust of Louis XV in a medallion) and 24 intaglio engravings, three of which are double, 12 full-page (separately) and eight in the text (full page, with text on verso). It also includes three large allusive vignettes (140x235 mm), one at the beginning of each of the three parts of the work, opened in copper plate by the best engravers of the time (Cars, Aveline, Cocart, Audran, Lebas, Beauvais et Desplaces), according to originals by Charles Parrocel and Antoine Coquart. Copy slightly handled, with some imperfections, namely: lower outer corner of the first four leaves with signs of handling and fungus; first double engraving with slight (tidal) stains; occasional smaller stains. It is however complete and solid and generally clean, with all the prints well placed. Ex-libris of D. Diogo de Bragança, VIII Marquis of Marialva. Contemporary binding, full sheepskin, a little worn with the heraldic book stamps of the House of Lafões, gold engraved at the centre of the covers (probably gauffered later). Keep the original endpapers on marbled paper. Cohen, 588. Graesse, IV, p. 79. Brunet, III, 769. Mennessier de La Lance (Bibliographie hippique), II, p. 27.

[RODRIGO DO PORTO, Frei, O.F.M.].- COMPENDIO | E SVMMARIO DE | CONFESSORES, TIRADO de | toda a substancia do Manual: copilado, & | abreuiado por hum Religioso, frade | Menor da orde[m] de S. Francisco | da Provincia da Piedade. | Acresce[n]tara[m]selhe em os lugares cõuenientes as cousas | mais comu[n]as q[ue] se ordenarão em o S. Cõcilio Tri- | de[n]tino. Cõ as excomunhões da bulla da Cea. | [pequena gravura xilográfica] | Impresso na dita cidade [de Braga]: por Gõçalo Fernãdez Impressor de sua S.R., 1579.- [16], 658, [59, 1 br.] p.; 15 cm.- E., Work published without the name of the author (according to the bibliography), Friar Minor of the Province of Piedade. Barbosa Machado considers it “the first sum of Moral that came out in vulgar language in this Kingdom”. The “Compendio”, originally published as “Manual de confessors” in 1549, would have at least six more editions during the 16th century. The present edition includes the guidelines of D. Friar Bartolomeu dos Mártires, after his participation in the third session of the Council of Trent: ¶ Foy visto, & emendado de muitos erros que nas impressões passadas auia, por mandado do Reuere[n]diss. S. Archbishop of Braga. The approval is given by D. Friar Amador Arrais. The copy, a little cropped with slight handling and slight browning lacks two blank sheets at the beginning and one at the end. Title page with antique ownership mark. Full of flexible parchment binding (from the period?), with new tie and endpapers. Anselmo, 542. BN (16th century), 816. King D. Manuel II of Portugal library does not mention.

SEMEDO, Pe. Álvaro, S.J.- Imperio de la China, y cultura evangelica en el, Por los Religiosos de la Compañia de Jesus. Sacado de las noticias del Padre Alvaro Semmedo de la propria Compañia. Por Manuel de Faria y Sousa.- Lisboa Occidental: En la Officina Herreriana, 1731.- [18], 252 p.; 29 cm. Junto com: MORENO PORCEL, Francisco.- Retrato de Manuel de Faria y Sousa, Cavallero del Orden Militar de Christo, y de la Casa Real. Contiene una relacion de su vida, un catalogo de sus escritos, y un sumario de sus elogios, recogidos de varios autores.- Aora nuevamente acrescentado con un juisio historico que compuzo el Excellentissimo Senhor Don Francisco Xavier de Meneses, Conde de Erizeira.- Lisboa Occidental: en la Officina Ferreiriana, 1733.- [16], 102, [1] p.; 29 cm.- E., Second Portuguese edition, published by Miguel Lopes Ferreira. Father Semedo (1585/86-1658), Jesuit and scientist, spent more than 20 years in China carrying out an in-depth study of local history and ethnography. He has always shown the greatest admiration for Chinese institutions and gives us a clear and concise account of the Chinese religious system. The work was written in Portuguese, but first published in Castilian by Manuel de Faria e Sousa (Madrid, 1642). It consists of three parts: a description of the kingdom, an explanation of its language and letters, and a set of ethnological and evangelical news. At the end, the second edition of the biography of Faria e Sousa, previously published in Madrid, in 1650, is bound. A slightly cropped copy, but very clean, lined in full sheepskin contemporary binding, slightly worn. Palau, 307304. Inocencio, I, p. 50 (with extensive description). Samodães, 1165. Palha, 4195.

PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- Wunderliche und Merkwürdige | Reisen FERDINAND MENDEZ PINTO, | Welche er innerhalb ein und zwanzig, Jahren | durch Europa, Asia, unf Africa, und deren König- | reiche und Länder; als Abyssina, China, Japon, Tartarey, Siam, | Calaminham, Pegu, Martabane, Bengale, Brama, Ormus, | Batas, Queda, Aru, Pan, Ainan, Calempluy, Cau- | chenchina, und andere Oerterverrichtet...- Amsterdam: bey Heinrich und Dietrich Boom, 1671.- [8], 392 [i.e. 390], [1, 1 br.] p.: il.; 20 cm.- E., First German edition of the famous travel book by Fernão Mendes Pinto (1510/14-1583), a famous traveler and adventurer, born in Montemor-o-Velho. Fernão Mendes left for India in 1537, having remained in the East for about 21 years. The “Pilgrimage”, a fantastic account of his troubled adventures, was originally published on the initiative of Friar Belchior Faria, 31 years after his death (1614), from the original manuscript bequeathed by the author to Casa Pia dos Penitentes. Illustrated edition with an allegorical frontispiece (integrated in the first booklet) and 11 copperplate engravings, printed separately, correctly placed, according to the respective pagination. Of these, seven were imported from the Dutch edition of 1652 and four were expressly engraved for the present edition. The 1652 edition also does not include the chapters referring to Saint Francis Xavier, which were not well accepted in the Netherlands, at the time predominantly Calvinist. Paging error from p. 73 (wrongly 75) to the end. Minor marginal restorations on the first six leaves and on leaves Z2, Aa2 and Zz1. Otherwise a slightly cropped but very clean copy. Bound from the 20th century, full of tobacco shagreen with blind tooling decoration on the covers. Cordier, BJ, 463. Cordier, BS, 111. Reiss & Auvermann, 675. Leite de Faria, XXXXX.

TORGA, Miguel.- Rampa: poemas / de Adolpho Rocha.- Coimbra: Edições Presença, 1930.- 76, [2] p.; 22 cm.- B., First edition of the author's second book and one of the rarest, still published under his real name. Miguel Torga (1902-1995) published his first four books under his real name: Ansiedade; (1928), Rampa; (1930), Pão ázimo; (1931) and Abismo; (1931). From his fifth book, O outro livro de Job (1936), he began to sign his works with the pseudonym that made him famous. Very clean copy, retaining both brochure covers with the original narrow flaps (with slight imperfections on the periphery).

SOUTHEY, Robert.- History of the Peninsular War.- London: John Murray, 1823-1832.- 3 vols.; 28 cm.- E., First edition of one of the most important documents for the history of political-military events of the time. Southey (1774-1843), English historian and poet, born in Bristol, visited Portugal twice and owned a valuable library of 14,000 volumes, specializing in works on the Iberian Peninsula and South America. The collation of each of the volumes is as follows: I - XIX, [1 br.], 806 p.; II - XVI, 807 p.; III - XV, [1], 936 p. Very clean copy, slightly cropped with marbled edges. Armorial ex-libris by Charles Herbert (unidentified coat of arms wrapped in legend: Tenax et Fidus), in the first volume only. Good contemporary bindings, full leather, burnished and calendered, with the three identical spines (five raised bands gold highlighted), but different covers, the first volume being decorated with squares and blind and gold ornamental borders, and the two remaining identical volumes, with blind ornamental borders, also two blind rectangles and central diamond. All volumes keep the original endpapers on different marbled papers. Duarte de Sousa, 680.

CAMÕES, Luís de.- RIMAS | DE LVIS DE | CAMÕES. | ACRESCENTADAS NESTA | Terceyra impressão. | Dirigidas a Inclyta Vniuersidade | de Coimbra. | [gravura xilográfica com a esfera armilar] | Impressas com licença da Sancta Inquisição.- Em Lisboa: Por Pedro Crasbeeck. A custa de Domingos Fernandez mercador de libros. Com Priuilegio. Anno 1607.- [8], 102 [aliás 202], [5] f.; 18 cm.- E., One of the three known variants of the third edition of the Rimes and, probably, the first to come off the press by Pedro Craesbeeck. The present one, with an armillary sphere in the engraving of the title page, corresponds approximately to the description of the copy by José do Canto (Camoneana, 14), but presents the typographical error SENETO I. on page 1 (f. A1), still to be corrected. On the other hand, the numbering of the last leaf (202) was corrected, since there are copies with errors in the foliation (102 by 202). The other two variants feature the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Portugal in the title page engraving. In fact, the three variants also show significant compositional differences that are not constant from specimen to specimen. Therefore, serious bibliographic problems arise, as can be seen from the detailed descriptions of Tito de Noronha (Anuário da Sociedade Nacional Camoneana), José do Canto (14) and Brito Aranha (Inocêncio, 11) which also do not coincide. Copy slightly cropped and with slight browning, preserving the rare last blank sheet (c8) that completes the section c. Remote provenance: Ex-libris Marchionis Salsiae (Francesco Maria Berio 1765-1820, Marchese di Salza); a second ex-libris, on the back cover, with the motto: Comme Je Fus (William Ward, viscount Dudley, 1750-1823). The copy also has a small handwritten note in pencil by London bookseller Bernard Quarith, with the indication Perfect. A good contemporary binding, fully made of rigid parchment, with the original endpapers on plain paper. Inocêncio, XIV, p. 40/43. Palha, 1619. Arouca, C 66 (describes only the second variant).

L'ÉVEQUE, Henri.- Costume of Portugal.- [London: Colnaghi and Edmund Lloyd, 1812-1814].- [1, 52] f.: [50] gravuras color.; 35 cm.- E., Henri l’Éveque (1769-1832), Swiss traveller, painter, watercolourist and engraver, born in Geneva, was in Portugal several times, having graphically recorded, among other subjects, numerous episodes of the French Invasions. His "Costume of Portugal" is considered the most beautiful book of Portuguese usages published during the 19th century and an important source for the iconography of Portuguese costume of his time. Without the title page, which was never printed, the edition consists of a page with the title, followed by another with the dedication printed to the councilor, minister and secretary of state António de Araújo de Azevedo, first Count of Barca (1754-1817) and a third sheet with the index of the engravings in Portuguese. Next, 50 numbered aquatints, coloured by hand, interspersed with 52 sheets of bilingual texts, in English and French, describing the respective images. Copy with stain on the edge, progressively affecting the outer margins of the last 11 engravings and respective text sheets (maximum 140x60 mm). The copy has a crowned oval stamp (on the first page) and a circular book stamp, also crowned, gold engraved, at the foot of the spine, ownership marks that, in the pencil inscription on the free endpaper, are attributed to Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex, sixth male child (ninth son) of King George III of the United Kingdom (attribution that could not be confirmed). The remaining plates are very clean and well preserved. Full brown morocco binding, with peripheral ornamental borders with three simple fillets and florets in the corners of the covers, closed panels on the smooth spine and rolls on the squares (protective case). Duarte de Sousa, 422.

[ORDENAÇÕES MANUELINAS] O PRIMEIRO [ao quinto] LI | uro das ordenações.- Lisboa: por Manoel Joam, 1565.- 5 livros em 1 vol.; 28 cm.- E., An important 16th-century Portuguese bibliographic species still shrouded in some uncertainty regarding the different prints and variants, the printer and place or places of printing. In terms of content, the “Manoeline Ordinances”, which were first printed in Lisbon by Valentim Fernandes (1512-1513), replaced the so-called “Afonsine Ordinances”. Its second printing is also from Lisbon, by João Pedro Bonhomini, 1514. In 1521 a new compilation was carried out, which resulted in the printing of Juan Cromberger, a printer of German origin, settled in Seville, followed by several reprints (four?) individualized from each (or some?) of the five books, until 1539. Finally, in 1565, Manuel João's edition was published. The “Manoeline Ordinances” were only replaced in 1603 by the Philippine Ordinances, since before this date no code was enacted to revoke them. The collation of each of the books is as follows. Book one: [3], xcvj f.; Second book: [2], lxix, [1] f.; Third book: [3], xcvi; Fourth book: [3], LXVI f.; Fifth book: [4], xcviij f. Titled copies were only printed in the first and third books. At the end of the last book, the signature of the licensee Mateus Esteves, from Desembargo do Paço. Complete copy, but with some imperfections, namely: first book cover very cropped and with restoration in the lower outer corner; the first three pages of the first book may have been added from another copy; xcv sheet (m6) of the first book, shorter, from another copy; last two sheets with strong and extensive restorations (margins reconstructed) affecting the text on the last sheet; slight browning and occasional marginal stains; numerous marginal annotations of the time. Recent binding, full parchment, with handwritten title on the spine, in the old-fashioned way. National Library (16th century), 745. Library of King D. Manuel II of Portugal, 421.

EUSÉBIO DE CESAREIA [e outros].- ¶ Historia | dela Iglesia. | Que llaman Ecclesiasti | ca y tripartita: abreui- | ada y trasladada de la- | tin en Castellano: por | vn deuoto Religioso de | la orden de sancto Do- | mingo. | Con priuilegio Real | Mil. D. xlj.- [Lisboa: Luís Rodrigues, 1541].- [8], CLXXI f.; 27 cm.- E., First Portuguese edition of a work based on the “Ecclesiastical History” by Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260/265- ca. 339/340) and his successors (especially Rufino and Cassiodoro), the translation being the responsibility of the Dominican Friar Juan de la Cruz. The author was Bishop of Caesarea and is considered the first historian of the Church, his writings being indispensable for the knowledge of the Early Church. The work, divided into nine books, was republished in Coimbra, by João Álvares, in 1554. On the verso of the last page, an ingenious colophon forming two triangles that ends “Acabose en la muy noble y leal ciudad de Lixboa. xv. from October. 1541”. Copy a little cropped with browning sometimes accentuated. Two small old inscriptions, one crossed out, on the title page; occasional minor restorations. Full leather binding, 20th century, with slight wear to the spine. Inocêncio III, p. 192 (extremely rare work). Samodães, 1553 (refers to only 8, 150 folios). Palau, 84777. National Library (16th century), 244.

ILLUSTRATED (AN) record of important events in the annals of Europe, during the years 1812, 1813, 1814, & 1815. Comprising a series of views of Paris, Moscow, the Kremlin, Dresden, Berlin, the Battles of Leipsic, etc. etc. etc. Together with a history of those momentous transactions.- London: Printed by T. Bensley, for R. Bowyer, 1815.- 76, [28], 10 p.: il.; 43 cm. Junto com: CAMPAIGN (THE) of Waterloo, illustrated with engravings of Les Quatre Bras, La Belle Alliance, Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte, and other principal scenes of action...- London: Printed by T. Bensley and Son, for Robert Bowyer, 1816.- 34 p.: il.; 43 cm.- E., Large graphic edition, published following the defeat and capitulation of the French Army, sometimes attributed to Thomas Hartwell Horne (1780-1862), English theologian and librarian. The first part is illustrated with 18 hand-coloured watercolours (4 fold-outs) representing cities (Paris, Moscow, Hamburg, Amsterdam, etc.) and military forces, a map and five intaglio prints; the second includes four aquatints (1 fold-out) and a map. The five folding plates were cut by the folds and later recovered, but they are damaged; the remaining 17 aquatints are very clean, as are the maps and engravings. The plates with the facsimiles of the signatures (p. 76) with tear restored without lack of support. Recent binding, fully red shagreen with elaborate gold ornamental borders on the covers, closed panels on the spine (with an eagle between the raised bands) and rolls on the squares. Protective case. Abbey (Life), 352 and 354

REGIMENTO dos Contos do Reyno, e Casa, nesta nova impressam acrescentado com hum alphabeto para nelle se achar com muita facilidade o que contem todos os capitulos [gravura com as armas de Portugal].- Em Lisboa: Na Officina de Valentim da Costa Deslandes, Impressor de Sua Magestade, 1708.- [16], 177, [1 br.]; 29 cm.- E., The Casa dos Contos, as the first organ for ordering and supervising State revenue and expenditure, can be considered the predecessor of the current Court of Auditors. The edition includes a large copperplate vignette on the title page, with the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Portugal and several chapters referring to the island territories, as well as Brazil, Africa and India. Slightly cropped copy (gilt edges), with some handling, covered in a remarkable contemporary binding, full “vieux rouge” shegreen, slightly worn, with multiple ornamental borders and central gold rectangle on both covers, with the coat of arms of Portugal gold engraved in the central reserve (new endpapers). Not mentioned in the consulted bibliographies.

PIMENTEL, Manuel.- Arte de navegar, em que se ensinão as regras praticas, e os modos de cartear, pela Carta plana, e reduzida, o modo de graduar a Balestilha por via de numeros, & muitos problemas uteis á Navegação; & roteiro das viagens, e costas maritimas de Guinè, Angola, Brasil, Indias, & Ilhas Occidentaes, e Orientaes.- Agora novamente emendado, & accrescentadas muitas derrotas novas.- Lisboa: Na Officina Real Deslandesiana,1712.- [12], 575, [1] p.: il.; 29 cm.- E., Second edition, the first illustrated, with additions and corrections, of two works by Manuel Pimentel's father, Luís Serrão Pimentel, published respectively in 1675 and 1681 and, both together, in 1699. Both authors held the position of Chief Cosmographer of the Realm. In addition to what is indicated on the title page, it also includes a description of «das sondas que se achão assim no canal de Inglaterra», a tour of the coast of Spain and another of the Mediterranean Sea, from Cadiz to Malta. The edition is illustrated with several figures in the text (among which a beautiful compass rose), three numbered engravings (one leaflet) and 18 separate engravings, numbered 1 to 18, representing 35 plants of harbours and shores, the majority with two illustrations per page (incorrectly numbered: Apparently, engraving 5 is missing, but there are two with the number 3, which occurs in all copies). Small restored wormhole, on the lower margin of the nine leaves after the title page. Large crossed-out but legible ownership on the inside endpaper: Antonio de Mello Callado. Very clean copy with good margins. Contemporary binding, full sheepskin, slightly worn, with new label. Inocêncio, VI, p. 82. Edition not mentioned in the main consulted catalogues, including Samodães, Ameal, Palha, etc., except Auvermann (161).

TELES, Pe. Baltasar, S.J.- HISTORIA | GERAL | DE ETHIOPIA | A | ALTA, | OV | PRESTE IOAM, | E DO QVE NELLA OBRÁRAM | OS | PADRES DA COMPANHIA | DE IESVS: | COMPOSTA NA MESMA | ETHIOPIA, | PELO PADRE MANOEL D'ALMEYDA, NATVRAL DE VIZEV, | PROVINCIAL, E VISITADOR, QVE FOY NA INDIA. | ABREVIADA COM NOVA RELEYÇAM, E METHODO, | PELO PADRE BALTHEZAR TELLEZ, NATVRAL DE LISBOA, | AMBOS DA MESMA COMPANHIA.- Em Coimbra: Na Officina de Manoel Dias, 1660.- [38], 736, [4] p.: 1 frontispício gravado, 1 mapa desdobr., 1 mapa; 28 cm.- E., First edition of a classic work that assumes great relevance in the panorama of the bibliography of the discoveries and missionary activity of the Society of Jesus, providing precious ethnographic, geographical, topographical, historical, scientific information, etc. Father Baltasar Teles (1596-1675), born in Lisbon, Jesuit and chronicler of the order, was a professor at the colleges of Évora, Coimbra, Braga and Lisbon (St. Antão College), of which he was rector. Copy with the following composition: half-title, allegorical frontispiece, title page, approve (2 f.), warnings about this map (the folding map of the lands and kingdoms of the Abyssinian Empire is pasted on the outer margin), commission, dedication, prologue to the reader ( 2f., having on the verso of the second page the “primeyra protestaçam do autor”), preface by the author, antidoron or remuneration offered to the reader (4 f.), poetry by Friar André Cardoso, letter from Friar Afonso Mendes (5 f.); the text follows, from p. 1 to 708. In the end, the multiplication table (pages 709 to 736). The copy lacks the last unnumbered sheet, which should contain, on the front, the “ultima protestaçam do autor” and on the verso, the errata. Copy carefully treated, washed, reglued and rebound, with occasional minor restorations. The original contemporary binding, full sheepskin, was reused and redone, with new endpapers. Samodães, 3338. Sommervogel, VII, 1909-1910. Arouca, T 35.

Lolita, British first edition

Fleming, Ian - On Her Majesty's Secret Service, first edition, 1963, published Jonathan Cape, Ltd, Graham Greene Travels with my Aunt, first edition 1969, published by The Bodley Head, P G Wodehouse, Cocktail Time, first edition 1958, published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd, etc (6)

Charles Dickens - Master Humphreys Clock, first edition, three volumes, half calf bindings, illustrated by George Cattermole & Hablot Browne

Fleming, Ian - You Only Live Twice, first edition, 1964, published Jonathan Cape Ltd (displayed in cabinet upstairs) (1)

Dickens, Charles - Bleak House, first edition, published Bradbury & Evans, London 1853, (1)

A collection of assorted pictures and prints, to include engraving of 'A Visit to the Donkeys', an oil on board depicting Shire Horses and a Limited Edition signed print of 'First Light Glen Allan' by Raymond Gibronan.